c4.xlarge vs m5d.xlarge

Instance Typec4.xlargem5d.xlarge
Instance FamilyCompute optimizedGeneral purpose
DetailsObsolete. Not recommended for use
High-performance web servers, scientific modeling, batch processing, distributed analytics, HPC, machine/deep learning inference, ad serving, scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding.

c – Compute optimized
4 – Generation
xlarge – Size
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
5 – Generation
d – Instance store volume
xlarge – Size
vCPUs44
Memory7.5 GiB16 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2666 v3 (Haswell)Intel Xeon Platinum 8175
Clock Speed2.9 GHz3.1 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc4.2xlarge, c4.4xlarge, c4.8xlarge, c4.large, c4.xlargem5d.12xlarge, m5d.16xlarge, m5d.24xlarge, m5d.2xlarge, m5d.4xlarge, m5d.8xlarge, m5d.large, m5d.metal, m5d.xlarge
Generationsc1.xlarge, c3.xlarge, c4.xlarge, c5.xlarge, c6i.xlarge, c7i.xlarge, c8i.xlargem5d.xlarge, m6id.xlarge, m8id.xlarge
Variantsm5.xlarge, m5a.xlarge, m5ad.xlarge, m5dn.xlarge, m5n.xlarge, m5zn.xlarge
SageMakerml.c4.xlargeml.m5d.xlarge
RDSdb.m5d.xlarge
OpenSearchc4.xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units1616
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 150 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput750 MBpsup to 2120 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth750 Mbps1150 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput93.75 Mbps143.75 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance6000 IOPS6000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance6000 IOPS18750 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth750 Mbps4750 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput93.75 Mbps593.75 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceHighUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportunsupportedrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.16x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c4.xlarge
m5d.xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.20000.2400
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.25200.2640
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.25200.2650
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.26100.2660
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.30900.2720
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.2770
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.2770
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.2780
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.2820
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.2820
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a0.2840
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.21800.2440
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.2840
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a0.2860
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a0.2860
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a0.2920
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a0.2920
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a0.2990
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a0.3000
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a0.3100
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a0.3600
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.22600.2440
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.22700.2520
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.22700.2520
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.23100.2520
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.23700.2520
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.23900.2620
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.24900.2640
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.19900.2260
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.19900.2260
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.19900.2260
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